Combined curtain-pole and shade-roller bracket.



PATENTED MAY 3, 1904.

A, KERR. COMBINED CURTAIN POLE AND SHADE ROLLER BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 25. 1904.

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brackets are shown in full lines.

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ALEWJRT KERR, OF ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND.

SPEGIFIKUATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,759, dated May,3, 1904.

Application filed January 25, 1904. Serial No. 190,585. (l lo model.)

of the United States, residing at Annapolis,

in the county of Anne Arundel and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Curtain-Pole an Shade-Roller Bracket, of which the folloy ing is a specification.

M y invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in combined curtain-pole and shade-roller brackets, and has for its primary object the provision of novel construction for supporting the curtain-pole at a point above the s hade-roller-supporting means.

1 form my improvement by stamping a single blank from a suitable sheet of metal and then bend the same into its proper shape. This is a very material feature, as I overcome the item of waste material and further produce a very simple device which can be manufactured at a small expense.

My invention further consists in the minor details of construction and arrangements of parts hereinafter referred to, and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a diagrammatical view of my improvement in its operative position, the curtain-pole and shaderoller being shown in dotted lines, while the Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of one of the brackets. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which one of the brackets is formed. Fig. 4 is a view in front elevation of the completed bracket. J

The blanks from which the brackets are formed are both substantially the same, the

only difference lying in the formation of the bearings for the shade-roller, the one being ception of screws or other suitable means for securing the same in position. The body portion is further provided at its upper edge with an approximately semicircular seat 4, the

edges of which are struck upwardly, as at 5, to

form flanges on which the curtain-pole rests.

At a 'point adjacent the lower forward edge of apertures 7, through which the securing means can be passed in lieu of the openings 3.

In the manufacture of the brackets I preferably stamp blanks of suitable contour, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, then bend thesame on the line :1 to form the rear edge flanges 2, and finally bend the tongues 5 outwardly to form flange 5, heretofore described. The openings can be formed simultaneously with the stamping operation, end it will thus be apparent that when the two operations of bending the parts referred to subsequently to the stamping of the blank that t' e article will be finished, and in condition to be placed upon the market.

While I have described my improvement'as being more particularly adapted for use in connection with curtain-poles and shade-rollers, yet I wish it understood that it can also be advantageously employed for supporting por tieres and the like.

In the foregoing l have described a construction capable of performing the various functions assigned to it; but I desire the right to make such alterations or changes in the minor v details of constructions as fall within the scope providedatitsrear edge with a flange and having its upper edge out away to form a seat,

said seat. substantially as and for. the purposes specified. V I

2. A bracket comprising a body portion formed in its upper edge with an approxi-,

mately semicircular seat, a flange projecting from the edge of said seat, ;an ear carried by said body portion, said ear being apertured and disposed beneath said seat, aflange formed integral with the rear edge of said body portion and being apertured, said body portion and a flange bent outwardly from the edges of being formed with apertures, the whole being formed from a single blank.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two witnesses.

' ALBERT KERR. Witnesses:

NICHOLAS H. GREEN, WILLIAM F. MINNIGK 

